The admission to continuation schools has increased in the 2000s and the association of Danish Industry has criticized this new development as too costly for society, and a waste of a full year during a labor shortage.
Lately, some families who have immigrated to Denmark and have little understanding for the highly developed Danish youth culture are seeking strict orthodox Christian continuation schools for their children.
For a number of years Efterskoleforeningen (the association of Continuation Schools) have tried to target this parent-group with an offer to detain their children and keep them "safe" from the challenging parts of the regular youth culture.
[6] In 2010 the Danish government announced, that they would reduce the grants for students so the parents would have to pay a larger percentage of the cost for having a child attending the schools.
Cincinnati Public Schools, led by superintendent Franklin B. Dyer, reached an agreement with labor unions and employers to reduce the working hours of high-school age employees by a half day without decreasing wages.
Wisconsin enacted a similar law, which required children under the age of 17 to attend four hours of continuation school a week.